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10/06/2020 at 23:20 • Filed to: Movies, Tenet
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"Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available" (whoistheleader2)
10/06/2020 at 23:20 • Filed to: Movies, Tenet | 0
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This marks the first time I’ve been in a movie theater since before COVID. The only other customers there were in this theater but the seats were spaced out and I felt very safe. It was just my two friends on one row and these other three people two rows back.
In Tenet, Christopher Nolan puts a real intellectual spin on the classic character driven action movie that kept me guessing up to the very end. The reality bending plot was extremely entertaining and the characters felt realistic and allowed you to get invested in them. I liked the pacing as well with a good mix of action and plot that kept you guessing without hopelessly confusing you.
If I have any complaints to make, it involves the general absence of development of the protagonist. He is likable and has his own personality, but there isn’t any real personal transformation from beginning to end. The same could be said for the other characters too. They were memorable but their character arcs were a bit flat.
I don’t feel cheated that the reasonably dynamic and likable main character at the beginning is still fundamentally the same one we get at the end; it wasn’t the focus. Though a bit more change would be nice.
Tenet had some great car scenes. The driving, fighting, and other action wasn’t shot in shaky cam so you could actually see what was going on. It was riveting in how realistically it was portrayed. Even when it involved things that would be impossible without the twist of the movie you felt that’s exactly how it would go down.
I noticed some cool European trucks featured prominently in one scene including an armored car, a fire truck, and a flatbed semi. And there was a late run Saab 9-5 . Car choice wasn’t extremely varied but cars weren’t all that important for much of the film. The actual action and fighting itself was probably the best I’ve seen recently though. Extremely well filmed in a way that is visually stimulating and exciting.
9/10 would highly recommend. A fun twist on a classic formula with impressively choreographed action and a brain melting plot that you’ll be thinking about for days.
CompactLuxuryFan
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10/06/2020 at 23:30 |
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I saw it on Friday! The Saab is actually a 9-5 and the chase has some very nice BMW and Audi V8 noises. I felt like you have to think a *lot* throughout the whole movie to understand every scene because the dynamics are a total mind fuck . I definitely need to re-watch it to have any hope of fully understanding some scenes.
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> CompactLuxuryFan
10/06/2020 at 23:42 |
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Oh, dang, sorry, one of these. I still love how these look. I must have been thinking about how I’ve seen at least two Saab 9-4Xs.
SPOILERS!
Since it was moving in reverse time flow, I knew it had to be important later. Same thing for a lot of other tiny details that didn’t make sense until later. Like the broken door at the airport. But yeah, the reverse driving was sooooooo trippy. It really took seeing it from the other perspective for me to understand what was going on. Definitely want to see it again so I can understand everything.
SBA Thanks You For All The Fish
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10/07/2020 at 01:43 |
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What is this “theater” of which you speak? Are you from the future?
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SBA Thanks You For All The Fish
> CompactLuxuryFan
10/07/2020 at 01:45 |
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Ah, the signature “Nolan” oh-its-really-deep-and-stylish thing?
-- Signed, the one guy in American who despises Interstellar. And, well, Rick Sanchez but Rick hates everything Nolan.
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> SBA Thanks You For All The Fish
10/07/2020 at 08:23 |
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Yes, that, but less about a personal journey.
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> SBA Thanks You For All The Fish
10/07/2020 at 08:23 |
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yes in the future we have bubble Tauruses
KnowsAboutCars
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10/07/2020 at 11:06 |
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Judging by the trailer that movie seems like a mind fuck and half.
Can’t recall too many Hollywood movies taking place in Estonia either.
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> KnowsAboutCars
10/07/2020 at 11:09 |
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Indeed. Once you actually figure out why and how certain things happened at the end is just crazy. I’d highly recommend it.
The location was refreshing too. Not too many movies with major scenes in Mumbai either.